Editing 1950s (section)

====Africa====
* Africa experienced the beginning of large-scale top-down economic interventions in the 1950s that failed to cause improvement and led to charitable exhaustion by the [[Western world|West]] as the century went on. The widespread corruption was not dealt with and war, disease, and famine continued to be constant problems in the region.
* Egyptian general [[Gamel Abdel Nasser]] overthrew the Egyptian monarchy, establishing himself as President of [[Egypt]]. Nasser became an influential leader in the Middle East in the 1950s, leading Arab states into war with [[Israel]], becoming a major leader of the [[Non-Aligned Movement]] and promoting [[Pan-Arabism|pan-Arab unification]].
* In 1957, [[Kwame Nkrumah|Dr. Kwame Nkrumah]], after a series of negotiations with the then British empire, secured the independence of Ghana. Ghana was hitherto referred to as Gold Coast, a colony of the [[British Empire]].